They successfully robbed two groups of people before getting their gun taken away by a member of the third.

The first two groups handed over their property without arguing because they knew it was all too likely that the gun was real. They knew it could be real because they aren’t stupid. They know that gun control is a failure, and they know that trusting that gun control works would get them killed.

This is what happens when you are terminally clueless about the world you are trying to govern. We’ve seen it time and time again. Obama says something stupid, arrogant, and inflammatory. Then his people try to walk it back.

In leftist La-La Land that counts as a walk back. He still “supports” banning so-called “assault weapons,” but he realizes that he can’t, so he’ll continue to “work under the radar.” If you vote for this man, you are voting to ban guns. Point-blank, end of story.

I know that Mittens Romney isn’t a whole lot better, but he can be forced to comply. He needs our votes, but more importantly, he needs House and Senate seats. So that’s how we get what we want. We take over the Senate and we increase the lead in the House. And then we spend the next four years pounding on those representatives to MAKE them restore our rights.

Everyone wants a new “Reagan” who will make everything right and allow us to go back to sleep. Well it was being asleep that got us to where we are today. We are all too lazy to do the hard work of forcing our elected representatives to do what WE want instead of what THEY want. That’s all it is, laziness. Well guess what? Your savior isn’t coming to earth between now and November. And if he does, he sure as hell isn’t running for President.

Politicians are scumbags. Get it through your heads once and for all. There are no heroes, no decent fellows, no disinterested Philosopher Kings. They are lying, cheating, scum. Stop acting like people who are lying, cheating, scum will magically change into the second coming of the George Washington of your history books and Ronald Reagan of your rose-tinted memories. If you want something out of the Government, if only for the Government to leave you alone, you have to make that happen. You have to harass and annoy your Representative and Senators to MAKE them leave you alone.

It’s a good speech. To a liberal who is ignorant about firearms it probably sounds moderate. It isn’t. “AK’s belong on battlefields and not on the streets of our cities.” He is calling for a new “Assault Weapons” ban. We don’t have full auto AKs sold to regular citizens, so he can’t claim he was talking about them. He’s flat-out saying we should ban private ownership of semi-auto box fed rifles that some people find scary looking.

This is arrogant AND stupid. He’s stupid enough that he doesn’t think we will know what he’s saying and he’s arrogant enough to believe that we’ll go along with it.

UPDATE: Now is the time to start calling your candidates, both for State and Federal office, and asking them a simple question. Do they support or oppose the Obama Assault Weapons Ban? Yes or no answers only, please.

I had to think long and hard about linking this. I know that I’m only giving oxygen to a person no one really listens to anyway, but I’m going to link on the basis that “hippy tears are sweet.” This is not an opportunity to educate or debate this clown. Their blog doesn’t have comments. It’s being linked as a window into the sad little world of a sad little man.

Sorry Chris, we’ve talked. You just weren’t invited. We’ve decided that your objections are irrelevant, so we’re just going to continue to restore our gun rights over those objections.

How sad he must be. After 100 years of Democrat rule, Obama’s dreadful first two years handed both houses of North Carolina’s General Assembly to the Republicans. After 40 years of hard work turning the Democrat party from a racist conservative party to a racist socialist party, it all goes up in smoke. They were so close to having everything they wanted and suddenly the voters turned against them. And they did it during the one election that would hand the Republicans free rein to undo a century’s worth of Gerrymandering in favor of the Democrats.

If you’d like to comment on gun law, their other blog has open comments. They aren’t appreciating my telling them that they’ve lost and should pack it in on the whole anti-gun thing. They linked that fantastical Think Progress “even NRA members want gun control” poll. (I should point out that these posts on two different blogs from the same “think tank” are written by two different people)

We know that the Kellerman study is garbage, but it you can study it for an example of anti-gun thinking. You see immediately what they chose as their metric, actual dead bodies. That means the gun grabbers believe that unless you’ve got an actual dead criminal bleeding out on your linoleum, you don’t have a valid Defensive Gun Use (DGU). In their minds, it’s not a DGU if a person pulls a gun on a criminal and the criminal suddenly remembers a pressing engagement elsewhere.

I want to quote the whole thing, but it makes for such entertaining reading that you should just click through and read it. Please, I’m begging you.

It has everything. Little old lady with a gun, left to her by her dead husband. Two full grown adult criminals with extensive records. Sheriffs jumping for joy. It even has the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” button.

There’s one thing that it is missing, however. No dead criminals. In fact, no dead anyone. And to the gun grabbers, this isn’t a DGU.

This wasn’t a one way shooting, this was two people shooting at each other. It’s hard to credit. Handguns are banned in Canada except for competition shooters and the like. Yet here we have not one but two people with handguns, and they are shooting at each other.

but to he honest, it doesn’t seem all that unpredictable. Of course there will be problems with Matthew and Mary. The whole show is built around three things.

The cast-iron decency of Count Grantham

The crazy antics of the Dowager Countess

Problems between Mary and Matthew.

Here’s my problem. My biggest problem is that Michelle Dockery’s publicist sucks. I don’t like to violate people’s photo copyright. I’m only using this photo because it was “released by PBS” presumably for publicity purposes, and is therefore fair game.

Michelle, if you ever Google yourself and find yourself here, smack your publicist about the head and shoulders. Then explain to him or her that they need to be sending me photos of you that I can publish without violating anyone’s copyright. It’s “Michelle Dockery Monday” and I would appreciate if I could get enough photos to post this feature EVERY Monday, not just once in a blue moon.